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In his world there are no days off. Days you are not getting better are days wasted.
“Nobody cares, work harder.”
It’s not talent; it’s drive. It’s not raw ability; it’s endurance.
you just need to get out the door and worry about today only. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Don’t worry about a week from now. You worry about today. Win the day. Do something positive. Worry about tomorrow tomorrow. To me, that is what enduring means. To get some positive direction going. To build up some momentum. What you’re barely doing day one, you’re doing easily on day twenty. That’s how it works. You have to get started and then you have to endure.
I don’t give answers; I take action. I’m not trying to educate; I’m leading by example. I don’t talk about tomorrow; I live out today.
once you have confidence, you begin to work hard, and that’s when you begin to find success.
It’s one thing to find your true passion in life, but what about your poison? What is the one thing or multiple things that hinder your ability to achieve the type of success you desire?
IF YOU’RE NOT OBSESSED, YOU’RE GOING TO BE MEDIOCRE.
We came to realize that the tougher we were, the more success we had.
If it’s easy for me to get there, then it’s easy for everybody to get there.
My success isn’t all about what I do. It’s also about what I don’t do. I don’t drink, fish, golf, play poker.
The truth is that I’ve always worked really hard because I’ve never really felt like I had a ton of natural skills or talent.
Decide to do something every day for a year. Whether it’s running a mile, reading a chapter, writing a paragraph, eating breakfast, or drinking a gallon of water: find something that will help you improve yourself and do it every day for a year. That’s how you build a work ethic.
“Train hard, hunt easy” means I want my training to be so hard that even the most difficult of hunts are easy by comparison.
I believe the reps that really count are when I shoot after running an ultra or after a tough lifting session, when I am beat down, tired, weak, and mentally exhausted, much like I get on those long mountain hunts.
Either I’m going to give 100 percent or I’m going to give zero. I’m never going to do anything halfway.
Love the journey and ignore thoughts of the finish line, as this is a race that never ends.
“I am still learning.”
whatever we have called the “norm,” we can do more.
Running marathons taught me how to break those barriers inside of myself when I wanted to quit.
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
“I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.”
To run a 10K, you can prepare by running a few miles a day, three days a week. It is really not that tough. To run a marathon, you should be running five or six days a week, seven to ten miles a day on average, with long runs occasionally over twenty miles. There is nothing easy about that, and that’s the draw.
For many years a 10K was the farthest I’d ever run.
No matter how bad things are going, smiling always helps.
I’ve been at a point where I didn’t know if I could run another step, feeling sorry for myself, knowing I could have gone back to bed and no one would have known any different. But I would have known, so I got up and did it anyway.
when you feel like you’re done, you’re not done. Endurance means you’re never done.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
I keep repeating over in my head, ‘Keep moving. Keep moving. Keep moving.’ Or sometimes it’s, ‘You’re fine. You’re fine. You’re fine.’ If I’m being nice to myself, sometimes I will cheer myself on and repeat, ‘You’re doing a good job. You’re doing a good job. You’re doing a good job.’”
“I find that the best way to connect with people is to run with them.
when I ran 240 miles. Upon finishing, I realized that I actually felt fine. During the race I felt terrible, but at the end I was smiling and saying it was great. So I wasn’t even close to being done. That wasn’t the limit.
“Sometimes your motivation needs to be because no one else wants to fucking do it. We need doctors, we need lawyers, we need dentists, we need teachers. We also need fucking savages.”
Many have talent, but few are obsessed.
Everybody don’t deserve to be around you. You got to defend your life with your life.
good is the enemy of great.
Your body gives what you ask of it.
Social media can be so strange as it gives people an opportunity to sit and judge pretty much 24-7.
As a hunter I take ownership over the fact that for me to survive, animals die. Life eats life.
There is never a question in my mind asking if I’m going to run today. I’m going to run no matter what. If I’m sick, I’ll still run. If I’m hurt, I’ll go slower.
if you’re weak of body and spirit, life is going to be that much harder.
I don’t care if you’re THE best, just give it YOUR best.
I start at 5:00 a.m. and finish at 8:00 p.m. every day. I give it my best.
That said, I hope you find your passion, your true passion in life. Some people never do, and they die without ever really knowing what lay dormant inside of their soul. That’s where I feel lucky; I found something that motivates me.
